KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An 11-year-old girl was injured while asleep in her bed after shots were fired into a home Sunday evening in Kansas City, Missouri, police said.
The girl was in her bedroom inside the home near East 92nd Street and James A. Reed Road when shots were fired into the residence, a police spokesman said. Multiple bullet holes were found in the wall of the bedroom, and bullets were found throughout the home.
The girl was shot in the arm and in the stomach, police said in a news release. She was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.
According to police, hospital staff said the girl would survive but suffered severe injuries to her arm.
Police said an officer who responded to the home, identified Monday afternoon as Officer Jeremy Chick, applied a tourniquet to the girl's arm to staunch the bleeding. Police said the tourniquet helped save the girl's life.
Truman Medical Centers began training KCPD officers in 2017 on how to use tourniquets through the "Stop the Bleed" program. The program is provided at no cost to the police department.
"For our trauma team, that's very energizing to find out that their work had a good outcome," Truman Medical Centers President and CEO Charlie Shields said. "This is certainly a case like that, where you saved a life and the life was saved because of efforts of not only the police officers, but the people who trained the police officers."
KCPD said Monday there was no information on a suspect or motive infor the shooting.
Neighbors who spoke with 41 Action News said there have been other issues with drive-by shootings in the area.
However, according to the KCPD crime map, there have been more than two dozen assaults and violent crimes involving guns in the neighborhood in the past year.
Police are working on identifying who is behind the shooting.
"I wish they would stop the violence, because there's young children out here and they should take that into consideration and have a little heart," Dusti Siljenberg, who lives in the area where the shooting occurred, said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers Tips Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
